I have three Gmail accounts: one that’s associated with this blog, my “standard,” everyday Gmail account, and one that I use solely for online ordering and signing up for offers. Switching between them has always been a pain: I’d have to log out of one, then log into another,- until I discovered that you it’s [...]
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My old friend Chris Guillebeau has just launched a site that’s a handy reference for travelers who want to leverage credit card programs and bonuses for free (or reduced cost) travel, Cards for Travel. One of the best features is a list of the best credit cards for airline mileage bonuses (note that some of [...]
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Kayak has pulled together a handy reference chart which recaps the various and sundry fees charged by U.S. airlines. Click on the excerpt below for a close-up view: See the entire chart here: Airline Fees – Kayak
A few days ago a coworker and I went through Security Checkpoint 2 at O’Hare. Dave was immediately behind me as we approached the conveyer belt for the magnetometer, but after I exited the checkpoint, he took about 2-3 minutes to catch up with me as I waited on the concourse. I’ve written about this [...]
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A morbid subject no doubt, but I stumbled across a couple of references to air disasters recently, and a remarkable symmetry existed between the two. First, a passage from Malcolm Gladwell’s excellent Outliers. In a typical crash, for example, the weather is poor—not terrible, necessarily, but bad enough that the pilot feels a little bit [...]
If you worry about losing your digital camera – or perhaps worse, the images on its memory card – you might want to check out CameraTrace. For an annual fee of $10, CameraTrace provides a metalized, adhesive tag for your camera which enables someone who’s found it to return it to you. The tag directs [...]
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A wonderful Vanity Fair article by Charles C. Mann neatly summarizes the absurdity of airport security; a brief excerpt: From an airplane-hijacking point of view, Schneier said, al-Qaeda had used up its luck. Passengers on the first three 9/11 flights didn’t resist their captors, because in the past the typical consequence of a plane seizure [...]
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